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8-Year-Old Accidentally Kills Self With Uzi

8 year-old was firing an Uzi under professional instruction

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 27, 2008 4:20 PM CDT

(Newser) – An 8-year-old boy died yesterday after he accidentally shot himself with an Uzi at a Massachusetts gun expo, the Hartford Courant reports. “The force of the weapon made it travel up and back toward his head, where he suffered the injury,” police said....   Read full story »

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